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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Tim Piccione

ACT builder learns fate after 'insidious, entitled, demeaning' abuse

A Canberra home builder has learned his fate after admitting to repeatedly assaulting his ex-wife, twice while she was heavily pregnant, in crimes labelled by a court as insidious, entitled and demeaning.

"The community speaks with one voice when it condemns family violence and it laments its pervasive, negative effects," Justice Louise Taylor said during a scathing sentencing hand-down.

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